Page:Goody Two-Shoes (1881).djvu/176

144 This Scene I have often conidered as a Leon, intructing me, that a Load of Riches bring, intead of Felicity, a Load of Troubles; and that the only Source of Happines is Contentment. Go, therefore, you who have too much, and give it to thoe who are in want; o hall you be happy yourelves, by making others happy. This is a Precept from the Almighty, a Precept which mut be regarded; for The Lord about your Paths, and about your Bed, and ptieth out all your Ways. An Anecdote, repecting, communicated by a Gentleman, who is now writing the Hitory of his Life.

T is generally known, that Tom Two-shoes went to Sea when he was a very little Boy, and very poor; and that he returned a very great Man, and very rich; but no one knows how he acquired o much Wealth but myelf, and a few Friends